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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Machine.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How have the relationships between the city and country changed in American industrial pastoralism?
(a) They are no longer exclusive.
(b) They are both reinvented by machines.
(c) They are no longer interdependent.
(d) They are both monetized.

2. Which leisure activity does Marx identify as revealing the influence of the sentimental pastoral ideal?
(a) Theatre.
(b) Travel.
(c) Hiking.
(d) Flying.

3. How did Americans see westward expansion, in Marx's account?
(a) As a crime against Indians.
(b) As a form of progress.
(c) As a destruction of the landscape.
(d) As a form of corruption.

4. What do Americans abandon when they are under the influence of the sentimental pastoral ideal?
(a) Outdated buildings.
(b) Urban areas.
(c) Urban parks.
(d) Small towns.

5. What 'sealed the fate' of American industrialism, according to Marx?
(a) Machine tools.
(b) Standardized parts.
(c) The railroad.
(d) The cotton gin.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what art does Marx see pastoral ideology contributing to a more realistic outcome for American society?

2. What dangers were writers warning about as America urbanized?

3. What does Marx point out accompanied factories and progress in transportation?

4. How have liberal thinkers portrayed the sentimental pastoral ideal, in Marx's account?

5. How does Marx characterize Prospero and members of the court?

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